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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in technology-enhanced learning have empowered students all around the world to take courses online. These massive online courses are normally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that blended learning organizations must deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can educators assure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can we assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Central African Republic to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. Corporations want to know how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this increasing desideratum for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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